Sending a key combination using the console

Click the Send Key Combination button
and
select Ctrl + V to paste the contents of your clipboard at your current
cursor location.

Adjusting the display window

To adjust the display window:

Click the Hide
and Restore buttons to
hide and restore the session display.

Cick the Open Session in New Window button to
detach the session as a new window.

Click the Activate Cloud Shell button at the top of the console
window to close the detached window and re-open the session in the console.

Click the Settings button
and then
Switch to Light Theme or Switch to Dark Theme to toggle between
themes.

Opening multiple sessions

Click the Add Cloud Shell Session button at
the top of the Cloud Shell window to open additional sessions. Each session
connects to the same virtual machine instance. When you open a new session, it
appears in a new tab at the bottom of the console.

Using the Code Editor

Beta

This is
a beta
release of the Cloud Shell code editor.
This feature
might be changed in backward-incompatible ways
and
is not
subject to any SLA or deprecation policy.

The beta version of the Cloud Shell code editor is now available for use. The
built-in code editor provides the convenience of editing files in the same
environment where projects are built and deployed. To use the code editor:

Launch the code editor by clicking the pencil icon on the toolbar of the
Cloud Shell window. This sets up the editor in a new tab with continued
access to the Cloud Shell.

Use the left-hand pane to browse through the file directories. Use the
right-hand pane to view and edit your files.

Access the functionality to toggle the editor and the Cloud Shell window,
upload and download files, preview web applications on a Cloud Shell
virtual machine instance, and view usage statistics, from the toolbar in the
upper right-hand corner.

Using the cloudshell command

The cloudshell command allows you to accomplish tasks like launching
tutorials, downloading files, setting aliases, and opening existing files in the
code editor from the Cloud Shell command line.

To open test1.md and test2.md for edit in the code editor, from the Cloud
Shell command line, run:

cloudshell edit test1.md test2.md

Similarly, to download files, run:

cloudshell download test1.md test2.md

The cloudshell command can also be used to launch a tutorial. To do so, run:

cloudshell launch-tutorial hello.md

For more information about the cloudshell command, run cloudshell help in
your Cloud Shell session.

Keyboard layout support

Cloud Shell allows you to specify which key behaves as Alt Gr. To specify key
mapping, go to the Terminal Settings menu, select Terminal Preferences > Keyboard >
Alt Gr Mode and choose one of the following options: